Locking the direction but not the movent

[dub]

So I'm making a sort of top down shooter kind of thing and what I am aiming to do is have a 'shot direction lock' where when you press an additional button to the fire button, it locks the direction you are shooting in (for example, top left) but lets the player move around as normal.

How could I go about this? I'm fairly clueless.

[Jaffob]

Two questions. Are you using an 8-Directions Movement for the player and how do you aim?

[dub]

Yes, eight directions and you shoot in the direction the player is facing.

[Jacob]

use an 'Always-set direction to "X"' after toggling a flag when the button was pressed

[dub]

Sorry, do you think you could expand on that, as I still don't think I understand.

How do I get MMF to lock the direction that the player is looking at, at the time of pressing the button.
Also the shooting direction needs to stay the same whilst the button is pressed but the character still has to be able to move in the eight directions.

[Jacob]

upon pressing button(
---set internal flag 0 on
---set alterable value A to dir(active)

internal flag 0 = on
---set direction to alterable value A(active)

active being your player

[Chaos]

an easier to understand method might be to have two active objects, a hidden one for moving, and a visible one for your actual player.

Set up some events to say something like this:

always --> set X position of (visible char) to X of (hidden mover), set Y position of (visible char) to Y of (hidden mover)

X (negate) player is holding spacebar --> set direction of (visible char) to direction of (hidden mover)

- you might need to set up another event to account for space bar actually being held, but that way, your main character can be used for the direction of the bullets, while the hidden moving active can be used for movement.

I can try to set up an example file if you need it if I get some time, but its actually pretty simple.

[InsertNameHere]

Here's an example based off of Chaos's method.

http://files.filefront.com/lock+directionmfa/;10666199;/fileinfo.html

I hope this helps.

[Chaos]

Thanks INH

[InsertNameHere]

Glad to help.